As a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan, I know a thing or two about long dry spells. I remember my near delirium when the Sox won the World Championship in 2004 after an 86 year drought. The only team with…
Barbara Graham didn’t have an easy life. A prostitute and convicted perjurer, petty crime was a way of life for her. Basing their screenplay for I Want to Live! on contemporary newspaper files and her own letters, Nelson Gidding and…
Considered by many to be the best actress of her generation, Meryl Streep gamely takes on the role of Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman who would have to have been considered her opposite. A patron of the arts in New…
Suicide Squad will go down as one of my biggest movie disappointments of 2016. I had high hopes for it, but in the end, Suicide Squad is a muddled mess. Sadder still, the 13-minutes of additional footage found on the…
The original Pete’s Dragon (1977) came out when I was a kid. I saw it quite a few times growing up and while I never remember considering it a great movie, I thought it was enjoyable fun. Now, almost forty…
Previously released on Blu-ray by MPI in 2009, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer has been released as a 30th Anniversary Edition. This new release has been restored from its original camera negative and magnetic soundtrack. In addition, new informative…
An adaptation of The Dead Rising Xbox game franchise and a sequel to 2015’s Dead Rising: Watchtower, Dead Rising: Endgame leaves behind a lot of the over-the-top gimmicky that made the original film such a fun experience, in favor of…
Nearly thirty-five years after its publication, director Steven Spielberg has delivered Roald Dahl’s The BFG onto the big screen. By reimagining the story with a script by the late Melissa Mathison, combined with cutting-edge digital effects, the magical world that…
An underrated work in John Huston’s filmography, Herman Melville’s massive novel Moby Dick is impossible to condense entirely as a film. However, Huston (with co-writer Ray Bradbury), managed to reduce the whole thing into two concise, yet exciting hours of…
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage…